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National Disability Services (NDS) is hosting NDIS Provider Forums across NSW. Replicating the annual round of regional provider forums, the sessions give local providers the opportunity to come together to network, […]

Google has launched Action Blocks, an Android app for people with limited mobility with customisable home screen buttons that make it easier for doing routine tasks such as controlling smart […]

Quality of service from the NDIS, work pressures and income security were hampering the delivery of disability services and supports according to a new report. The national survey was carried […]

If the answer is YES then you are invited to consider participating in a government sponsored research project about motorised mobility devices (MMDs). The University of Wollongong and Assistive Technology […]

COAG: Update on disability and COVID-19

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) working group recently published its first public working draft of the XR Accessibility User Requirements (XAUR). XR is an umbrella […]

Further initiatives for supporting NDIS participants and disability providers during COVID-19 have been announced. For the next five months, eligible participants will be able to use existing NDIS plan funding […]

 WA disability services provider Cahoots, previously Kids’ Camps Inc., has launched Cahoots Connects, to assist people living with disability to have shopping delivered to their door by trained staff and […]

The World Blind Union Asia Pacific (WBUAP) Onkyo Braille essay competition is now open to people aged 14 years and above who are blind or vision-impaired. The contest is intended […]

The University of Sydney Centre for Disability Research & Policy has prepared a Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (PCEP) Planning toolkit for COVID-19. Click below to go to either the PDF or Word […]

Industry group ATSA has written to 15 Disability and Health Ministers to ensure the supply of assistive technologies (AT) remains on the agenda as an essential service. Each state has […]

To disability sector with coronavirus update.